Kiss My Book!

Publications

From Award-winning Educator and Author, a new book of short fiction. Beautiful, sensitive, and in some instances ironic stories of saviors and failures. The Healer’s Daughter watches her mother change before her eyes and fears for own future. In Mirror People, a woman tries to save her sister from an obsession which may cost both of them. The Crier, some people believe, is a miracle worker, but is it the kind of miracle society needs?

2018 Semi-finalist for the CIBA ‘Clue Awards’. “When college English professor Bob Kelton finds his students murdered in the classroom, he realizes that the only evidence proving the identity of the killer also proves that Kelton violated school policy by being away from his class when the killings occurred.Kelton now must decide to either reveal the evidence and lose his career or hide it and risk his life to catch the murderer himself.The result is a roller coaster of events, including romance, loss, forgiveness–and even a thrilling showdown–that profoundly change Kelton’s life forever.”

Brutish with the soul of a poet; violent, but with the heart of a protective shepherd. This is not the one dimensional Polyphemus from the Odyssey, but a brilliant, mad, tragic and darkly humorous being who embodies the best and worst of men and monsters. Enter the world of Polyphemus. The son of a god and nymph, despised and cast off by his parents, and feared by all others. Enter a world of magical realism, where dreams and reality merge, where destiny is bent by the fates and gods, and at the center of it all is the anti-hero for the ages- The cyclops, Polyphemus.

Chris longingly remembers his love of spain, of a particular girl, and flamenco. Can he ever get back to The Last Night in Granada?

Eddy is the fictional account of Poe’s actual suicide attempt in 1848.

Deeply saddened by the loss of everyone he’s loved and seeing no hope for the future, Edgar Allan Poe take an overdose of Laudanum. He dreams of other events, his loves, including his mother, as they fight to try to save him.

Fire N Ash is a heart-rendering look at love and loss in beautifully written verse.

The Kiss is a story of a woman discovering her most intimate desires over a weekend camping trip.

“Marshall Merrick, called Book, is just another poor kid living on the unforgiving shores of the Kentucky River, born to a legacy of violence and raised to sacrifice his ambitions on the altar of his Appalachian pride. But his lust for knowledge and a dangerous love fuel his hope for something more, a life far from the river and its poison. It’s this hope, slim as a shadow and unrelenting as the summer sun, that leads him into waters more treacherous than he has ever braved, and a choice that threatens to drown everything he loves.”

West End follows the life of a young woman from childhood to early adulthood in a declining area.Enclosed by a darkness that permeates her inner and outer landscape, the narrator experiences recurrent losses. Unable to handle the melancholia that overtakes her, she feels her only choice is to “escape the madness.”